VII.

This48114811 Taken from a work (Quæs.
et Resp. ad Othod.) ascribed to Justin Martyr, but certainly written
after the Nicene Council. It is evident that this is not an exact
quotation from Irenæus, but a summary of his words. The
“Sunday” here referred to must be Easter Sunday.
Massuet’s emendation of the text has been adopted, ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ for ἐπ’ αὐτῶν.
[custom], of not bending the knee upon Sunday, is a symbol of the
resurrection, through which we have been set free, by the grace of
Christ, from sins, and from death, which has been put to death under Him.
Now this custom took its rise from apostolic times, as the blessed
Irenæus, the martyr and bishop of Lyons, declares in his treatise On
Easter, in which he makes mention of Pentecost also; upon which
[feast] we do not bend the knee, because it is
of equal
significance with the Lord’s day, for the reason already alleged
concerning it.

4811 Taken from a work (Quæs.
et Resp. ad Othod.) ascribed to Justin Martyr, but certainly written
after the Nicene Council. It is evident that this is not an exact
quotation from Irenæus, but a summary of his words. The
“Sunday” here referred to must be Easter Sunday.
Massuet’s emendation of the text has been adopted, ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ for ἐπ’ αὐτῶν.